On Monday August 9th, 2010 at the Microsoft Office in Irvine, CA I'll be leading up an all day "Storage and Virtualization for the DBA" training session. In addition to a great day of training, one lucky attendee will walk away with a...

If you don't know what KMS is, it's the nightmare that Microsoft has unleashed upon the Windows Admins of the world since the release of Windows 2008 R1. In the good old days you stuck the Windows license key on the server and it connected to Microsoft to validate the license. Apparently that...

So a few years ago a new Storage concept was introduced to market. That platform is know known as the IBM XIV platform. What makes this system so different from every other storage platform on the market is that the system doesn't have any hardware level RAID like a traditional storage array...